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Liam Gallagher furiously chastises fan who launched flare into crowd at Oasis gig

Liam Gallagher has issued a furious rebuke to a fan at a recent Oasis gig who discharged a flare in the middle of the crowd.

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“Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history

Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold

Louder

“I hate new basses. I think they are terrible. I don’t want to have one in my hands”: How Sting’s 1953 P-Bass set the tone for this Police classic

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline

Guitar World

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“Who’d have thought the Oasis reunion would be such an event for signature guitars?” All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the Hummingbird’s evil twin

A host of highly anticipated signatures, some surprising company-firsts, and the evil twin of the classic Hummingbird all landed this week

Guitar World

Gustaffson's Andrew Gower: 'We want people to listen to music, not just hear it"

The new single from Gustaffson - fronted by Ellis star Andrew Gower - is an ode to real music with all its imperfections

Evening Standard

“Me and Chino rowed a lot when we were working on it. It was a really abrasive process”: Deftones' White Pony was one of the first metal masterpieces of the new millennium. Its creation was anything but smooth sailing

Resident riffmaster Stephen Carpenter minced no words in this 2000 interview, rolling his eyes at “our friends” Korn, and even – before walking it back – calling his bandmate's guitar-work “awful.” Still, though, he was proud of the band's “really awesome record”

Guitar World

This Cassette Boombox just blew away every other Bluetooth speaker — but it's not cheap

It might look old, but the GB-001 is filled with modern features — and it delivers some truly epic sound.

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“You’ll hear him say everything from, ‘I never wanted it to be a single’ to ‘I hated the song’”: The huge Linkin Park hit that Chester Bennington didn’t even want on Hybrid Theory

Even Chester admitted that he was wrong

Metal Hammer

“As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end

Riverside’s Mariusz Duda concludes his circle-of-life-and-death story with eighth instalment (that takes place between the fifth and fourth)

Louder

“I was with Ozzy nine months and it didn’t end in a good break-up”: Drum legend Carmine Appice on getting high with Jimi Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy Osbourne and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died

Drum legend Carmine Appice has been in the business for 60 years – and he’s crossed paths with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Dave Grohl

Louder

‘G’day Australia. Did you miss us?’ Oasis kicks off Australia tour with euphoric show

The bucket hats were out in force at Marvel Stadium as Liam and Noel Gallagher made a polished – and even affectionate – return to Melbourne

The Guardian - AU

“It’s become impossible to operate sustainably as a predominantly brick and mortar musical instrument retailer in the UK”: Scotland’s Kenny’s Music is the latest guitar shop chain to close its doors – despite strong sales figures

Kenny’s had a physical presence in Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dunfermline and its closure continues a worrying trend that has seen UK gear heavyweights GAK and PMT go to the wall

Guitar World

“Matt and MGW have collaborated for several years to fine-tune the pedal… And the results will astonish you”: Manson Guitar Works' debut fuzz pedal is here, but will Matt Bellamy’s high-end boutique stompbox be worth the wait?

Co-designed by the Muse frontman, designed to go into your amp or direct to desk, and built in partnership with Thorpy FX, the Supermassive Black Fuzz is a lot of pedal – and it ain't cheap

Guitar World

“I think we’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying”: When David Bowie gave an amazingly accurate prediction of how the internet would change everything - and even hinted at AI

Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was going to change music and content forever

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Arcade Fire couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne split after 22 years of marriage

Break-up comes after Butler faced misconduct allegations, which he denies, three years ago

Guitar World

“What Dire Straits would sound like if Mark Knopfler grew up in the deserts of Algeria rather than the streets of Newcastle”: October 2025 Guitar World Editors' Picks

Liven up your Halloween with six-string (and five-string) sorcery from Alter Bridge, Mei Semones, Whitney, Karma Sheen, Jacob Collier, Unprocessed, and many more

Evening Standard

Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers, 48, was ‘found dead in a pool of blood’

The 48-year-old passed away earlier this month

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #215: Why we can’t get enough of Bohemian Rhapsody

In this week’s newsletter: Fifty years after its release, the Queen classic shows no signs of biting the dust. So what makes it such a timeless tune?

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Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody voted favourite song of Greatest Hits Radio listeners

It is the seventh year in a row the 1975 track has topped the list of 500 songs.

Guitar World

“It was about completing the circle and us showing what James and I as guitar players did to change the world”: Dave Mustaine reveals why Megadeth are covering Metallica on their final album

Megadeth's new album will find Mustaine and co playing a Metallica classic, co-written by Mustaine in the early days, and MegaDave promises us we've never heard Ride the Lightning like this before

MusicRadar

“He would always put himself down. I'd say, 'How is your latest record, Jeff?' And he'd go, 'Oh, it's a lot of rubbish'”: Ritchie Blackmore says that Jeff Beck was "always reaching for something he couldn't find"

“He was always reaching for something he couldn't find," he says of guitar great

Latin Times

Celia Cruz's Voice Returns to Vinyl with Éxitos Eternos, a Century After Her Birth

Twenty-two years after her death, the unmistakable cry of "¡Azúcar!" is spinning again, this time from a gold vinyl that crackles like memory. Éxitos Eternos, a new LP from Amazon Music available this fall, gathers some of Celia Cruz's most iconic recordings in a single, limited-edition release that coincides with…

MusicRadar

“I feel a freedom behind the piano that I don’t feel behind the sequencer”: Armin Van Buuren on why he ditched the DAW and released an album of one-take piano recordings

"If people will dislike this or be critical of this, because it’s so personal, that will hit me harder than when I do release another dance track"

Metal Hammer

"I dug the record 'cause it was incorporating hip hop into rock. I was like, 'This is cool!'" How one rap legend joined the unlikeliest tour ever to help bring hip hop to the nu metal generation

The idea of Ice Cube and Korn sharing a bill might not seem strange now, but in the 90s, it was a thrilling novelty

Metal Hammer

"These typical metalheads, long-haired with their jackets, they’re the ones standing there and singing Backstreet Boys and Cascada." Five minutes with Electric Callboy, the band "making metal accessible"

Electric Callboy have metalheads singing along to 90s pop classics, and they love it

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